Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House G.O.P. leaders rallied to support his re-election, Democrats circled ravenously. Said David Bonior, Democratic whip and the Speaker's nemesis: "Mr. Gingrich engaged in a pattern of tax fraud, lies and cover-up in paving his road to the second highest office of this land. He is not worthy of that office." Bonior called for the Department of Justice, the FBI, a grand jury and others to investigate. Said he: "The Gingrich case does not end here...
...Robert Dornan "B-1 Bob" went ballistic after narrowly losing his House seat in Orange County, California, to Hispanic financial analyst Loretta Sanchez. Threatening to sue her for election fraud, Dornan called Sanchez a "liar" and said "the whole thing stinks to high heaven." Of course, sour grapes were to be expected from the former fighter pilot who once grabbed a fellow Congressman by the collar and called him a "draft-dodging wimp." Sanchez's campaign manager, John Shallman, spoke for many when he said of Dornan, "He's been, and continues to be, a national disgrace...
...District judge in Los Angeles tossed out Keating's 1993 conviction--and 12 1/2-year sentence--for fraud. The judge, whose ruling could lead to a retrial, said several jurors were prejudiced by knowledge of Keating's 1991 conviction on similar charges in a California state court. That verdict vaporized too: a federal appeals court overturned it last April on grounds that Judge Lance Ito (of O.J. fame) had given jurors improper instructions...
GREENSBORO, North Carolina: "They did their jobs. They faked nothing. They committed no fraud, no trespass or breach of duty," ABC attorney Bill Jeffress told jurors in opening the trial of "Prime Time Live" producers Lynn Dale and Susan Burnette, whose November 1992 story on improper food handling at Food Lion supermarkets cost the chain billions. Attorneys question which jobs the defendants were doing: television news producers or supermarket employees. Food Lion is suing Dale, Burnette and ABC for $2.5 billion over a story that portrayed Food Barn stores in North and South Carolina selling contaminated meat in unsanitary conditions...
...vote. Rawlings, who first seized power in a 1979 coup, ruled over a single-party state until winning the 1992 elections with nearly 59 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was estimated at 65 percent to 70 percent of Ghana's 9.2 million eligible voters. Despite protests of election fraud by Kufuor supporters, international observers said there was no indication of manipulation of the vote. Rawlings has been praised for launching an austerity program in the early 1980s that gave Ghana one of the most stable economies in West Africa. According to one voter, a Rawlings vote...